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Getting Inspired By Tones of Denim

I don’t wear a great deal of denim, namely because I find jeans a royal pain to try and find. Some people can devote many hours trying them on until they find the perfect pair, but I’m a shop-'n'-go kind of girl. I can barely think of anything worse than spending hours obsessing over denim washes and jean shapes.

For spring/summer, though, I saw a lot of denim-like hues that evoked denim without using the material in its conventional form. Some examples:

Preen incorporated denim panels into skirts and dresses along with printed chiffon and satin to soften things up.

Stella also used a chambray-type denim in soft jackets and shirts and put them with soft chiffon shirts for a relaxed take on the material.

Peter Pilotto’s print-filled collection had hints of denim worked into the draped dresses and spell-binding prints.

I’m definitely in favor of those lighter blue shades of denim, as well as the use of chambray in this Lauren Moffatt dress and the shade of blue in my much-worn Krstof Strozyna jacket. The tights are by a label called Les Queues de Sardines, and, yes, they have eyeballs all over them (only to be broken out on a rainy day when eyeballs peering up at me from my tights can cheer me up).

I also dug out this amateur scattered image effort where powder blue, a shade closely related to its denim cousin, is in full effect with some vintage pieces and a pair of Rupert Sanderson shoes. It's paired with a headdress from British hat label Le Tour de Force that, again, is good for cheering up on rainy days.